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Conlang Typology Survey (partial results)

From:Garrett Jones <conlang@...>
Date:Thursday, May 22, 2003, 4:20
i only had time at the moment to compile some partial results. i did
morphological type, word order, and lexicon size.

I. morpho types:

a. combinations:
agg: 13
agg/fus: 4
agg/fus/poly: 1
agg/iso: 5
agg/poly: 1
fus: 13
fus/iso: 3
fus/poly: 1
iso: 6
poly: 2
poly/iso: 1

b. primary types:
agg: 24 (48.0%)
fus: 17 (34.0%)
iso: 6 (12.0%)
poly: 3 (6.0%)
> total: 50
c. allowed types: agg: 24 (36.4%) fus: 22 (33.3%) iso: 14 (21.2%) poly: 6 (9.1%)
> total: 66
II. word order: a. combinations: free: 5 OSV/free: 1 OSV/SOV: 1 SOV: 5 SOV/free: 2 SOV/OSV: 1 SVO: 19 SVO/free: 4 VOS/VSO: 1 VSO: 7 b. primary types: SVO: 23 (56.1%) SOV: 8 (19.5%) VSO: 7 (17.1%) OSV: 2 (4.9%) VOS: 1 (2.4%) OVS: 0 (0.0%)
> total: 41
c. allowed types: SVO: 23 (41.1%) free: 12 (21.4%) SOV: 9 (16.1%) VSO: 8 (14.3%) OSV: 3 (5.4%) VOS: 1 (1.8%) OVS: 0 (0.0%)
> total: 56
III. number of lexical entries: median = 448 average = 950.8 std deviation = 1420.0 does anyone have the stats on natlangs for I and II? I know that SOV/SVO are about ~45% each, and VSO is ~10% for natlangs. -- Garrett Jones http://www.alkaline.org

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